Battle of Bosworth by Phillip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812)
On the 22nd August 1485 the penultimate battle of the War of the Roses took place. Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, led the house of Lancaster to victory against King Richard III and the house of York. Richard III was killed in battle and so ended the Plantagenet dynasty that had ruled for 331 years.
King Richard III by unknown artist
Henry Tudor’s victory and subsequent marriage to Elizabeth of York was the commencement of the Tudor dynasty. A house that would rule England and its realms for 118 years until the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.
Henry Tudor by Michel Sittow
Read guest article, The Dawning of the Tudor Sunne, about the War of the Roses by author Wendy J. Dunn here.
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